Wal-Mart plan approved

SWANSEA, Mass. — The Planning Board in Swansea voted unanimously on June 1 to approve a site plan for a Wal-Mart super-store to be constructed in the parking lot west of Swansea Mall.

SWANSEA, Mass. — The Planning Board in Swansea voted unanimously on June 1 to approve a site plan for a Wal-Mart super-store to be constructed in the parking lot west of Swansea Mall.

In an agreement with the town, Wal-Mart will also contribute $50,000 towards equipment that will allow town emergency vehicles to change traffic lights as they approach them.

Wal-Mart would install the necessary signal control system at Maple Avenue, Route 118 and G.A.R. Highway, and G.A.R. Highway and Gardners Neck Road as well as at two new lights at the I-195 exit ramps on Route 6.

Wal-Mart is now awaiting a vote of Town Meeting that could result in a reduction of the number of parking places required.

According to Town Planner Steven Antinelli, the June 29 Town Meeting is expected to include zoning revisions to allow a building the size of Wal-Mart (over 158,000 square feet) to have three parking spaces for every 1,000 square feet of building, a reduction from the current requirement of five spaces for every 1,000 square feet.

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